Me, New York City
and the Punk Scene
By CHRIS STEIN
Selected Photographs
The Music Photo Gallery Presents "Me, New York City and the Punk Scene" - Photographs by Chris Stein / Digital Exhibition + Gallery Show in Buenos Aires. The show introduces a selection of Chris rarely seen prints chronicling the music scene from the early 1970s at the same time it reveals New York City in "the beginning".
Starting with an image of Debbie Harry looking to the camera like a super model to the early days at CBGB where Chris used to play as a member of the band Blondie and shared the stage with The Ramones, The New York Dolls, Suicide, DEVO, Television and Lou Reed among other. Mr. Stein has captured memorable photographs of rock and roll’s icons and iconoclasts.
The selected works for the show ventures beyond the New York rock and punk scene with an extensive look at Chris photographs of seminal bands and representatives of the first wave.
There are portraits and candid shots of Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Joan Jett and The Ramones.
Chris Stein is the co-founder, songwriter, and guitarist of the iconic punk band Blondie. His photographic work has been featured in galleries and press around the world, and published in the successful book Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk, published by Rizzoli. Beyond his era-defining music with Blondie, he has collaborated with a host of artists over the years, from Shepard Fairey to Glenn O'Brien and Andy Warhol.
Chris started taking photographs in 1968. During his last years at the School Of Visual Arts in NYC he began hanging around the early downtown rock scene and taking rock portraits. In 1973 he met and began working with Debbie Harry and together they founded the band Blondie. Chris was always taking pictures of the milieu that surrounded Blondie and was lucky to be on the inside and able to mingle with many pioneers of the new wave and punk music scenes. His photos of Debbie have helped establish her as an international icon.
Richard Hell with the pool
About the artworks
All the photographs are available for purchase
Each photography is printed and signed by the photographer himself
All the pieces are Proven Archival / Museum Quality - Prints
They come with a certificate of authenticity
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The Music Scene
Featured Works
One of the first time seeing oversized street posters in Paris during a 1978 Blondie tour… something new to us at the time.
Chris Stein
Backstage during The Idiot tour with Iggy Pop during 1977. On this particular tour, David Bowie was a side musician in Iggy’s band, playing keyboards. Bowie was always very gracious with us, and he proved to be the consummate professional throughout. His taking a “back seat” to Iggy was a big deal since David was already a massive star at the time, taking on the role of a session/back-up musician said a lot about both his level of self-confidence and his respect for Iggy.
Chris Stein
Debbie and Joey Ramone from Punk Magazine's "Mutant Monster Beach Party”, a photographic comic. This particular series was shot by Roberta Bayley and myself at our 17th Street apartment in Manhattan during the summer of 1978.
Chris Stein
Deborah Harry - Iggy Pop - Well Did You Evah. Year 1990
This is the 1980 photograph I took of Andy Warhol photographing Debbie with his Polaroid Big Shot camera. This shoot took place at the third Warhol Factory location which was on Broadway at the north end of Union Square in Manhattan. The Factory was Andy's New York City studio space, there were three locations between 1962 and 1984. The original Factory was on the fifth floor at 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan. Debbie and I were close with Andy during this particular period (during the third Factory era).
Chris Stein
Debbie and I at CBGB’s during 1974.
Chris Stein
Chris Stein. Self portrait at Sheepshead Bay. Brooklyn, New York. 1969-70
New York City
Featured Works
Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie at Chris Stein’s photo exhibit, NYC. May 1982
© Bob Gruen, 1982
Chris Stein Exhibition | March/April 2021 | Arroyo 877 / Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires Gallery
Exhibit until April 20th - 2021
TMPG | Arroyo 877 | CA1007 | Buenos Aires / Argentina
Selected Media
El músico y fotógrafo ofrece una muestra virtual.
Fotos de Chris Stein, la New York de a pie
Debbie Harry: una musa en diez imágenes narradas detrás de la cámara, en primera persona
Chris Stein: "Blondie siempre fue una banda pop, incluso al principio"
De la guitarra a la cámara fotográfica, ida y vuelta.
Video Interview with Chris Stein
December, 2020
Chris Stein, la otra mitad de Blondie: le gusta el reguetón y asegura que los Ramones son más pop que punk
El guitarrista y fotógrafo dialogó sobre su nueva muestra de imágenes vinculadas a los años de la explosión del punk. Consideró que el género latino "tiene muy buenas melodías y unos beats muy sexys".
